Need some Lang Lang?

Lang Lang pre-show, Saturday, October 25, 7pm at Tilles Center Atrium Lobby

Lang Lang solo piano concert, Saturday, October 25, 8pm, Tilles Center

Lang Lang 101 Pianists Concert, Sunday October 26, 4pm, Tilles Center

Dear all teachers,

If anyone is looking for an entertainment this weekend, there is a Lang Lang 101 pianists concert at Tilles Center. Our SPTF teachers' students are participating. Below link is to Newsday article about it. For tickets, contact Tilles Center Box office.

Click here to read the Newsday article

SPTF Teachers who have students participating in Lang Lang 101 Pianists concert are;

Esther Chung Marks

Lawrence Schubert

Evelyn Ulex

Helen Ferrara

Frances Hanlon

Johanna Kosak

Ellen Johansen

Wen Ling Cheng

Kathy Lee

Vilma Barsauskene

At the Pre-show, Kevin Cao and Francis Leung (students of Lawrence Schubert and Esther Chung Marks) will be among two of five students who will be performing wonderful solo pieces as they are selected as an honorable mention at the audition for the soloist spot. Congratulations to them as well.

Some of non-SPTF teachers such as Miyoko Lotto, Nevart Zeronian, Dr. Pablo Lavandara, Dr. Simon Li and other great 49 teachers' students are participating as one of 100 piano players at this event.

I personally am very much honored to have been a program coordinator and working as a lead teacher along with prof. Stephanie Watt. This is a great and exciting events for 100 students to perform two duet pieces together with Lang Lang. Come and join us.

Piano Party this weekend - All invited

 SUNDAY/OCTOBER 12, 2014 at 3:00 pm

010 NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

From the Studio of Blanche Abram

ELLEN JOHANSEN + STUART LUCKS

John Corigliano - Etude Fantasy

Gabriel Fauré - Nocturne Opus 33 No. 1 in e flat minor

Franz Liszt - Trois Etudes de Concert

              Franz Liszt - transcriptions of Schubert Songs and

        transcription of Bach’s Organ Prelude & Fugue in A minor

Great Music

And

Light refreshments

 FREE ADMISSION!

New Updated Calendar is now posted at the Virtual Newsletter

Did you know that the virtual newsletter posts the calendar for the Suffolk Piano Teachers Foundation events?  It is handy!  No more searching through 3000 emails to find it.  The calendar includes the dates for all meetings, recital deadlines,  recitals, competition deadlines and the updated competition weekend.   Go to the  Suffolk Piano Teachers Foundation Virtual Newsletter and look for the calendar page in the right column.  While you are there perhaps you would like to offer some feedback to any of the articles published so far?  I would love to hear from you.

Ellen Johansen
Editor of the Suffolk Piano Teachers Foundation Virtual Newsletter

We all can improve our Organ technique

Upcoming Master Class with our Piano teacher Colleague, Joe Graziose

Words from Fred Barnett - Let's stop and think about what we are doing as piano teachers

  Our Higher Calling

As we go about our daily business of hopefully practicing, building repertoire, preparing students for recitals, NYSSMA, GUILD, competitions, developing sight reading, technique, interpretation, etc, just to name a few, one cannot help to sometimes wish to stop and reflect -

Is there a higher calling? Unequivocal answer: ABSOLUTELY!

If yes, is there, perhaps, some divine evidence of such a calling? Ditto!

Since childhood many of us have been inundated with reported signs of divine evidence, some perhaps fabricated, many clearly authentic: perfection of the universe, rising and falling sunsets, life itself, etc. And wouldn’t the divine creations of the Bachs, Beethovens, and Chopins during recent centuries and currently continuing also rate as nothing less than spectacular? Especially those whose time on earth never reached forty years?

The multi chaptered “Music and Its Secretive Influence,” by Cyril Scott, re-published in 2013, delves into such matters, even convincingly inferring that the music of the masters, the very music we teach, can be and often is construed as the voice of the Almighty.  Certainly recommended reading for music educators. Published by “Inner Traditions”

During this current and widespread malady of our era - inert “spectating” as never before - TV, the web, entertainment, sports, celebrity worship, etc. - what sets our SPTF apart is that our clientele are “doers and participants: our students.” As the great violinist, Isaac Stern, once mentioned in a chance encounter and chat again “hopefully some cultural achievement of note will somehow emerge in some pocket and hopefully escalate”

We are clearly on track and progressing in that direction.

 Fred Barnett